Audi TTRS - owning and modifying experience

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Winter fun

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CrouchingWayne said:

Great thread - How do you find the handling after your mods? That pace is serious and with the rear seats it could be deemed "practical" with a wee one around now. Been looking at them for a week or two - have prices been firm for a while or are they gradually sliding?

Although the 0-60 and 0-100 times grab the attention and don't get me wrong it really is laugh out loud fast in a straight line it's the handling improvements that make me keep the car.
The fully adjustable suspension means you can put the car to exactly where you like to the millimetre. I run pretty low and with some positive rake and it's really good and the upgraded springs contain body movement better but ride is still acceptable. I look at every factory sports car now and think....ride height is too high.
Price wise, they are drifting down, but they are rare and the dual clutch was only around for half the production run so can't see them falling too far in the long term

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On days like this...life is good

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Feirny said:

Hoonmeister said:

On days like this...life is good

Is that standard ride height?

No it is my preferred ride height...see comments on fully adjustable suspension

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MrVert said:

996 C4S Vs TTRS - no contest IMO - RS every day.....coming from a serial 911 buyer BTW....

Having been lucky enough to have owned both the 996 C4S and TTRS in my opinion they both have strengths and it depends what you want of the car.

I toured and hooned extensively in the C4S but did not use it as a daily. The only mods on the C4S were 997 Turbo front brakes and a GT3 short shift kit (manual) and it had factory PSE (Porsche Sports Exhaust)











In my experience or opinion relative strengths:

TTRS:
Much faster - even before the remap
S-Tronic gearbox is fantastic in all modes
More economical 27mpg vs 22mpg for the C4S
More practical - huge boot and fold down seats
Engine full of character and nice sound
Decent ICE and modern connectivity and nav
Rare and undervalued but still depreciating
Reliable with no known expensive issues

C4S:
Fast enough but no rocket
Great manual shift with ss kit but heavy in traffic
Practical for 1 or 2 touring but no more
Old school ICE - upgradeable through aftermarket
Flat 6 naturally aspirated engine is lovely
With PSE it sounds the absolute nuts
But M96 associated potential time bombs - IMS bore scoring et al
Probably already appreciating - sure to go higher

If its a daily driver - go TTRS all day
For a weekend toy or investment maybe C4S but look for a post engine rebuild car - and make sure its manual with PSE

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anonymous said:

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Of course not.
First picture us on the Bealach na Ba commonly known as the Applecross Pass in Wester Ross.
The second is at Eilean Donnan castle near Skye.

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HannsG said:

This is a really stupid question. But been considering these as a daily also.

Does it get over 30 mpg on a decent run?

Thanks

Averaged 34 on run to Lemans.

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I ran secondary cat delete pipes and APR remap on original intercooler with no issues.